Apple is no longer just a maker of bright-shiny tech. It’s become a business ecosystem with cloud, music and app subscriptions. Its bundling these services and trying customers into them. It’s a digital wallet via ApplePay. It’s a streaming service. At $54 bln its services business is now larger than its iPhone sales of $40 bln, while “wearables” like watches and buds come in at $31 bln.

Apple will launch the iPhone 13 series & the Apple Watch Series 7 during its “California Streaming” event.

In August Apple said it will scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, if the "A.I." detects a suspect image it will be sent for review by a human, which could result in your holiday snaps of your kids or a risky photo of your partner being viewed by someone in a foreign data centre and then shared. A month later Apple said it's delaying its plan to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, saying it needs more time to refine the system before releasing it.

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